The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, in this era, few sovereign countries are willing to pay "tithes" to the Holy See honestly. Often, the monarchs of various countries will secretly collude with their own churches to embezzle the tithes collected by their own countries. Then, report a natural or man-made disaster to the Holy See, and deliberately ignore most of the "tithes" that should be paid to the Holy See.

Although the Holy See only requires churches from all over the world to hand over half of the "tithes" collected to the Holy See, churches and government officials from all over the world will collude to corrupt most of it. Then, they will take out part of the corrupt "tithes" and bribe the relevant cardinals in the Holy See who are responsible for the collection of "tithes" in the area, and ask this person to help conceal it...

In this way, the local church and the government benefited, as did the cardinals related to the Holy See, and most of the "tithes" disappeared.

Regarding this point, the pope is actually well aware of it, but the previous popes did not dare to do anything about it. Because the pope is elected by the cardinals. Moreover, the pope often comes from a prominent family, and he still counts on his younger generation to succeed, how dare he lift the cover? Moreover, many popes did this kind of thing when they were cardinals before being elected. Even becoming the pope would not be willing to lift the lid. Because, if you really check it out, you will have to pay for it...

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. Those cardinals who have no real power live on the bribes of their respective parishes. If anyone dared to move their interests, these cardinals would probably take the risk.

In the end, I am afraid that only the church princes in the German region sent relatively more "tithes". Because even if the princes of the church are elected, they must be approved by the Pope to officially perform their duties. The official hat is in the hands of the Holy See, and I dare not not cooperate. In most secular countries, only part of the "tithe" will be sent to the Holy See. And for a rogue country like France that dared to kidnap the Pope, the Holy See never expected them to give...

Of course, Marin will definitely pay half of the "tithe" to the Holy See honestly. Because he still needs the support of the Holy See. Even, it is necessary to carry the banner of the Holy See in future religious wars. Therefore, he will not play tricks on paying "tithes" or something. Otherwise, it would be impossible to borrow the name of the Holy See at that time.

However, Marin is not stupid. He did not honestly pay the "tithe tax" according to the real yield per mu, but paid the tax according to the "low standard" of 150 pounds per mu. This standard, in general countries, is considered a very high standard. Because the average yield per mu in most countries does not reach the yield of 150 pounds per mu. But in Beihai country, this is really a very low output. The reason why the Holy See agreed to collect according to this low standard and set the amount is mainly because the Pope is Marin's father-in-law...

However, the "tithe" that Beihai State honestly handed over shocked the Holy See. Because, after the autumn harvest, Marin shipped 90 million pounds of rye to Rome according to half the standard. Of course, they are all old grains. And these ryes are enough to feed 200,000 people for a year. In addition to the grain converted from selling indulgences, the granary of the Holy See will be full now...

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Just when the North Sea State began to transport food to Rome, the Spaniards also began to land on the northern coast of Italy, and their soldiers pointed directly at the Duchy of Milan.

Gonzalo de Cordoba adopted Marin's suggestion. At this time, the autumn harvest was over, and the city of Milan was full of grain harvested in the Po River Plain. Sending troops to Milan at this time will definitely get a lot of food!

Moreover, Marin also cryptically told Gonzalo in his letter of suggestion that Gudendorff, the German mercenary general who controlled the Principality of Milan at this time, secretly reached a tacit agreement with Maximilian I...

Therefore, the bold Gonzalo de Cordoba directly suggested to the Spanish royal family to bribe Guttendorf so that the operation would not be obstructed.

You know, no matter what Gudendorff said, he still had 16,000 German mercenaries in his hands, and his strength should not be underestimated. If the opponent fights with him, although Gonzalo is confident of winning, he will definitely lose a lot.

Therefore, he simply asked the two kings of Spain to secretly send envoys to secretly bribe Guttendorf with 200,000 gold coins, so that he would deliberately turn a blind eye to Gonzalo's military actions...

How did Gonzalo act? In order to quickly enter the grain-producing area of ​​the Po River Plain, he mobilized 5,000 Spanish halter cavalry, plus 3,000 light cavalry, and landed in the Lucca area. Then, he quickly rode his horse northward, and when Gudendorff was still leading his troops to attack the Müstair Valley, he rushed towards the city of Milan at an extremely fast speed.

On the day when the army arrived in Milan City, Gudendorff's subordinates quietly opened the city gate in the middle of the night...

Then, 8,000 Spanish cavalry forced 20,000 Milanese people to drive horse-drawn carts and carts the next day, and transport a large amount of grain to Port Lucca in the south...

When Gudendorff "learned the bad news" and "led the army back to help", most of the food in Milan was taken away by the Spaniards...

Fortunately, the Spaniards also obeyed the rules and didn't take all of them. He didn't even do anything to rob the city of Milan, and retreated in a hurry with food and grass.

Therefore, Gudendorff's army "just missed" the opportunity to confront the Spanish army head-on. But this army is not out of food, because the collection of autumn grain in the Po River Plain of the Principality of Milan is still in progress. The food that the Spaniards robbed can only be regarded as most of it, and a small part is being sent to the city of Milan. Therefore, Guddendorff's 16,000 troops will not starve to death.

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However, when the news reached Paris, Louis XII felt uncomfortable...

Because, Louis XII planned to rely on the Principality of Milan to provide food, and then sent a large army to help the Swiss drive the Habsburg family's army out of Switzerland. As a result, Milan's food was robbed, and the French's idea of ​​helping Switzerland was shattered.

What's more serious is that because of the autumn harvest rains in northeastern France, the grain harvest is poor, and a large amount of food relief is needed. Without the food in the Po River Plain of the Principality of Milan, let alone sending troops to help Switzerland, even the disaster relief is far from enough...

Louis XII was very angry, but after the anger passed, he realized the danger - because the Spaniards made another move...

Originally, the Spaniards were defeated by the French and lost the Kingdom of Naples. Louis XII knew they would not be reconciled. However, Louis XII did not expect that the Spanish counterattack came so quickly.

According to Louis XII's vision, the Spaniards should wait a year or two before counterattacking after suffering such a large loss. After all, the Spaniards died a lot in the last war.

But Louis XII didn't know, because Marin deliberately found someone to leak the effect of volcanic ash to the Spaniards, which made the Spaniards realize that if the French were not organized earlier to continue to obtain volcanic ash from the Kingdom of Naples, the French would reserve enough Forage, the end of the Spaniards is coming...

Therefore, even if they have not fully recovered, the Spaniards can't wait, and they will never allow the French to continue to easily continue to obtain volcanic ash from the Kingdom of Naples. At least, before next year's spring plowing, the Spaniards will cut off the French's access to volcanic ash. At the same time, they seized the volcanic ash producing areas by themselves and dug them back to the country to promote agricultural development.

This time Spain sent troops to the Duchy of Milan to rob food, which meant that the Spaniards were ready and started to fight back...

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